peaceful mode

[RoboPhilip]

i feel like there should be an option to make all hostile creatures friendly, because fighting is not what i like to do in open world survival craft games. What can i say? I prefer the pacifist type of life

[Voodoojedizin]

Just watch what you are doing and pay attention to your surroundings, nothing sneaks up on you in this game.
And nothing is actively hunting you, there is very little reason to go where the the big boys live. I have played through this game several times and have never killed anything except by accident. You don't even need to kill fish to survive. Just rely on your own intelligence I'm sure you're smarter than any fish.

[Mr. Stuffy]

It's called creative mode, they cannot harm you nor your vehicles so even if they did attack you it would do nothing.

[Levianne]

Originally posted by RoboPhilip1038:

i feel like there should be an option to make all hostile creatures friendly, because fighting is not what i like to do in open world survival craft games. What can i say? I prefer the pacifist type of life

That's kinda flawed reasoning here. You're playing a survival game, the main goal here is to survive. You're stranded on an alien planet with different life forms, where some of them are naturally hostile to you. Making them peaceful would defy the purpose of survival. Part of it is to AVOID those nasties at all costs. You're there to try to survive and get back home, not to make new friends.
Of course fighting might not be your thing, but you know what? It's also not required in this game. You're not supposed to fight these enormous creatures, that want to eat you alive, you're supposed to swim far far away from them as fast as you can and generally avoid them, if you can. So even if fighting isn't your cup of tea, it isn't required (even recommended) in this game. So again, your request seems odd. Your goal in this game isn't to kill every bad guy, because you won't get any resources from doing that, so there's no reason. Your goal is to mine resources, build stuff, solve an issue and then leave the planet. Avoiding those big creatures would be the best idea, increasing your chances of staying alive for another day. Making them peaceful would make the game stupidly easy and boring. Just saying.

[bladerunner97]

The mod Manage Creature Spawns can remove the more aggressive creatures. You could make the whole place pretty darn quiet if you wished.

[RoboPhilip]

Originally posted by Mr. Stuffy:

It's called creative mode, they cannot harm you nor your vehicles so even if they did attack you it would do nothing.

Here's the thing: I am don't want them to harm me, but at the same time, i don't want to just have unlimited items and such. I want the only dangers to be things like hunger, thirst, and oxygen

[RoboPhilip]

Originally posted by Levianne:

Originally posted by RoboPhilip1038:

i feel like there should be an option to make all hostile creatures friendly, because fighting is not what i like to do in open world survival craft games. What can i say? I prefer the pacifist type of life

That's kinda flawed reasoning here. You're playing a survival game, the main goal here is to survive. You're stranded on an alien planet with different life forms, where some of them are naturally hostile to you. Making them peaceful would defy the purpose of survival. Part of it is to AVOID those nasties at all costs. You're there to try to survive and get back home, not to make new friends.
Of course fighting might not be your thing, but you know what? It's also not required in this game. You're not supposed to fight these enormous creatures, that want to eat you alive, you're supposed to swim far far away from them as fast as you can and generally avoid them, if you can. So even if fighting isn't your cup of tea, it isn't required (even recommended) in this game. So again, your request seems odd. Your goal in this game isn't to kill every bad guy, because you won't get any resources from doing that, so there's no reason. Your goal is to mine resources, build stuff, solve an issue and then leave the planet. Avoiding those big creatures would be the best idea, increasing your chances of staying alive for another day. Making them peaceful would make the game stupidly easy and boring. Just saying.

My main concern, and the main reason why i made this topic, is because i have anxiety, and i get paranoid very easily. I always feel like i have to watch my back and stay in my base if there are hostiles

[mreed2]

Start in Survival mode, then activate the developer console and activate the "Invisible" cheat. Instructions on how to access the console can be found here: https://subnautica.fandom.com/wiki/Console_Commands_(Subnautica). As stated on that page, you'll need to turn this back on each time you load the game, so make sure you are somewhere safe when you save the game.

I'll reiterate what others have said, though -- the danger from creatures is more illusion than actual. If you just ignore all the hostile creatures, you'll be OK far more likely than you think.

[frogger]

I'm assuming by "peaceful mode" you mean that the game still functions normally, except creatures don't attack. There are passive mods for reaper, ghost leviathan, and sea dragon. I'm not seeing an all-in-one passive mod on nexus but it's probably possible, maybe poke around one of the at least 3 existing mods and see what changes they made.

Also why are you guys lecturing him about how he should be playing the game? Games are there for fun and if this is what he enjoys, that's ok. The game is already "stupidly easy and boring," most of its playtime consists of re-re-re-retracing your steps and gathering materials that makes it possible to gather more materials. The difficulty is psychological, being willing to visit deeper, darker waters and swim past aggressive creatures. Mechanically, it's marginally more difficult than, I dunno, Bejeweled 2 or Angry Birds. Which is to say it's a casual game.

Originally posted by Voodoojedizin:

there is very little reason to go where the the big boys live

the main plot?

[Voodoojedizin]

Like I said Just watch what you are doing and pay attention to your surroundings, nothing sneaks up on you in this game. This is one of the easiest survival games I've ever played, obviously made for children.

Neither one of the last, and deepest two leviathans, are any real trouble at all to get buy, without them bothering you. If that's the part of the main plot to you're talking about

As for all the others there's no reason even go where they live because there are resources everywhere. There's only one other place you might run into a leviathan that's somewhat close to where you might need to go but even then they don't get that close and it's easy to sneak around its location.

None of the other creatures are any real threat at all, more annoying than anything.

[Levianne]

Originally posted by RoboPhilip1038:

My main concern, and the main reason why i made this topic, is because i have anxiety, and i get paranoid very easily. I always feel like i have to watch my back and stay in my base if there are hostiles

But this is exactly the intended way of playing the game. You're not supposed to be a "Rambo" character, one without fear, you should be paranoid and look over your shoulder quite often in this game. It's not you, it's the game, that makes you feel that way. No one should play it like "yo, I'mma immortal, let's go kill that big baddie over there!". The game is supposed to be a bit frustrating. I get that you may have issues with fear and whatnot, but the game is designed to count with that. I don't wanna be rude or something, but if it's too much for you, maybe you should find a different game. It sounds rough, I know, but this is absolutely, how the game was intended.

Originally posted by frogger:

Also why are you guys lecturing him about how he should be playing the game? Games are there for fun and if this is what he enjoys, that's ok. The game is already "stupidly easy and boring," most of its playtime consists of re-re-re-retracing your steps and gathering materials that makes it possible to gather more materials. The difficulty is psychological, being willing to visit deeper, darker waters and swim past aggressive creatures. Mechanically, it's marginally more difficult than, I dunno, Bejeweled 2 or Angry Birds. Which is to say it's a casual game.

I get that people can play their games however they like. Nothing wrong with that. But some games are apparently not for everyone, instead of encouraging people in "overcoming" their difficulties by other means (like mods, cheats, editing and whatnot), maybe a better idea would be to tell them, how things are, if the game isn't their cup of tea, then forcing other methods only to let them play the games that aren't designed for them ... I'm not really sure if that's the right way. I'm not against cheating in a singleplayer game, heck I'm doing it mayself in most games, but changing the game's intended nature, just so a guy, who's afraid, could enjoy it, I dunno. For me, something doesn't click there. I rather spend my time "lecturing" a guy, in hopes he'll give up on a game, that's not meant for him, instead of encouraging him, that there's a way to "force" his viewpoint upon the game (by cheating, or mods, or whatever). Modifications are an awesome thing, but again, I play with mods for fun, not to overcome my fears or stuff. With cheats and all, the exact same thing.

So if someone has ARACHNOPHOBIA (not me, I find spiders beautiful and fascinating), would you recommend to get a mod to change all spiders in a game to dunno, rabbits or stuff? Just for a guy to enjoy it? It'll make the game different, less enjoyable in my eyes. Because (and this would come weird from someone, who just said, that she loves spiders) there's a satisfaction in smashing spiders on screen (could also work as a cure for arachnophobia, the more you smash them, the less you fear them). XD

I personally find the idea of "fixing" someone's fear with mods and stuff absolutely dumb. Whenever I see a new mod popping up, that reasons with "for all people, who have 'insert a phobia here', this mod is for you", I have an urge to write them a long article, about how their mod sucks and how they are stupid for thinking, that this will help someone. It won't. No one ever overcame their fear by AVOIDING IT!

[Jerkey]

Sounds like you should play a building game rather than a survival game man. Some people categorize this game as a horror game. While I completely disagree I know it can be scary. If that's not your cup of tea then it's not your cup of tea. You're basically wishing it were a different game than it is.

[Drizzt]

Originally posted by RoboPhilip1038:

Originally posted by Mr. Stuffy:

It's called creative mode, they cannot harm you nor your vehicles so even if they did attack you it would do nothing.

Here's the thing: I am don't want them to harm me, but at the same time, i don't want to just have unlimited items and such. I want the only dangers to be things like hunger, thirst, and oxygen

totally understand - i'm sure you saw it - but just in case you didn't - the poster who pointed out the "invisible" cheat is what you want

you press Shift and Enter to enable the console for the first time since booting up the game. And every other time it will be just Enter for that session.

and then you type "invisible" (without quotes) and hit Enter

and then the aggressive fauna will simply ignore you, and your vehicles and bases

but you will still need oxygen and sustenance, and have to deal with power and pressure etc

sounds like what you want :-)

and just to remind you the same thing the other poster said - all cheats reset when you load a game - and so you will have to activate it again each time you load

enjoy :-)

[RoboPhilip]

Originally posted by frogger:

I'm assuming by "peaceful mode" you mean that the game still functions normally, except creatures don't attack. There are passive mods for reaper, ghost leviathan, and sea dragon. I'm not seeing an all-in-one passive mod on nexus but it's probably possible, maybe poke around one of the at least 3 existing mods and see what changes they made.

Also why are you guys lecturing him about how he should be playing the game? Games are there for fun and if this is what he enjoys, that's ok. The game is already "stupidly easy and boring," most of its playtime consists of re-re-re-retracing your steps and gathering materials that makes it possible to gather more materials. The difficulty is psychological, being willing to visit deeper, darker waters and swim past aggressive creatures. Mechanically, it's marginally more difficult than, I dunno, Bejeweled 2 or Angry Birds. Which is to say it's a casual game.

Originally posted by Voodoojedizin:

there is very little reason to go where the the big boys live

the main plot?

yes, that is EXACTLY what i mean, word for word

[Drizzt]

Originally posted by RoboPhilip1038:

Originally posted by frogger:

I'm assuming by "peaceful mode" you mean that the game still functions normally, except creatures don't attack. There are passive mods for reaper, ghost leviathan, and sea dragon. I'm not seeing an all-in-one passive mod on nexus but it's probably possible, maybe poke around one of the at least 3 existing mods and see what changes they made.

Also why are you guys lecturing him about how he should be playing the game? Games are there for fun and if this is what he enjoys, that's ok. The game is already "stupidly easy and boring," most of its playtime consists of re-re-re-retracing your steps and gathering materials that makes it possible to gather more materials. The difficulty is psychological, being willing to visit deeper, darker waters and swim past aggressive creatures. Mechanically, it's marginally more difficult than, I dunno, Bejeweled 2 or Angry Birds. Which is to say it's a casual game.

Originally posted by Voodoojedizin:

there is very little reason to go where the the big boys live

the main plot?

yes, that is EXACTLY what i mean, word for word

and it does exist in the vanilla game - no mods needed - just the "invisible" code :-)

i tried it - and it does exactly what you want - everything in the game is the same, but the monsters don't attack

also - it is probably the reason why there are mods to pacify individual monsters, but not all of them - since this code pacifies all of them, and so a mod is unnecessary

but if someone just wants to pacify certain monsters, then they would need a mod for each

but yes - for what you want - invisible mode is it :-)

[Drizzt]

and just to follow up - i am now having a very nice, chilled game, using invisible mode

the main bonus being that i can play with the sound off, and not have to worry about being attacked

and i am aware that since the player can survive most attacks, that theoretically i could play with the sound off without using the invisible mode

but since i always play with one life, and since in my last game i got killed by half a dozen sulphur things chasing me through a cave full of stingers - and that time i had the sound on lol - i figured i would have a game where i could enjoy some underwater building and survival without the monsters

since most monsters have sound cues so that you know they are near - and so not having those cues is a recipe to get attacked more often, and to make death far more likely than it would otherwise be

but still....

maybe i will drown

or maybe i will manage to accidentally die of thirst lol

or run myself down by jumping out of the seamoth too fast

but either way, it is nice to have the option to play in this mode - to enjoy most of the game's mechanics, while listening to something else in the background

obviously the sound effects in this game are great, and do a significant amount for the underwater atmosphere

but i have experienced them - and i will do so again

but just thought i would point out that some players appreciate having many options for how they play their favorite games

and while i prefer the full survival experience with the sound on and the monsters aggressive - i am glad to have this option - as well as glad that those that don't like the monsters can also enjoy everything else this game has to offer

games are supposed to be fun - and in most cases, customization options simply mean that more players are able to make the game more accurately suit their tastes - as well as allowing players to have more ways to enjoy their games

seems like some positive, consumer friendly game design to include these options

so it is nice that they have been included :-)